Sentences with phrase «little global interest»

At the time Mr. Honda made this bold statement there was little global interest in environmental issues or protection.

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With inflation under control and renewed risks to the global economy, there is little rationale for the central bank to raise interest rates anytime soon.

In another well - flagged move, the Bank of England (BoE) raised interest rates in the United Kingdom (UK) for the first time since the global financial crisis, following data showing third - quarter UK growth was a little higher than consensus forecasts.

For a little «excitement» I own a 100 % global equity fund to keep my interest up!

Global equities were little changed on the week amid somewhat firmer interest rates and oil prices.

Despite the global stock market selloff, investors are showing little interest in the safest government bonds.

The booklet includes definitions and activities around the following Google Earth layers: • Borders and Labels • Photos • 3D Buildings • Ocean • Weather • Gallery • Global Awareness • and more Key points of interest are highlighted and quirky little tips are included.

Dan Becker, director of the Sierra Club's global warming and energy program, says the EPA numbers demonstrate domestic manufacturers have little interest in fuel economy.

CL: I sought to demonstrate to an audience of interested laypeople, both in Australia and other countries, that there's little new under the sun: the «Global Financial Crisis,» as the events of 2007 - 2009 are commonly known in Australia, is merely the latest in a long series of economic and financial crises that have punctuated the history of the past 250 or so years.

As you point out other studies agree with the MBH study so I would have thought what amounts to a sudden global climate shift would be of major interest to climate scientists everywhere yet one sees relatively little written about it.

If anyone wants to take a little time to get above the fray over whether there is or is not global warming, I thought I'd alert those interested in a possible larger question that we might be asking at this juncture in our history.

The result is a suite of 160 clean and neat «what if» scenarios, but very little (at least if the summary reflects what's coming in the full 900 - page report at the end of the month) on how the more aggressive scenarios for cleaning up the global energy supply might actually be achieved in the real world of competing and conflicting national, corporate and personal interests.

It's hard to find an explanation for the global temperature record in the El Niño / La Niña Southern Oscillation (ENSO), although that climatic oscillation did play a major role in influencing weather patterns worldwide throughout 2010, as ENSO switched from a warm El Niño in early 2010 to a powerful La Niña somewhere from July — showing little interest in the intermediate.

However, I admit I do not understand why he was opposed to handing the information over to Keenan as he has no axe to grind as far as temperature is concerned or global warming (which is something that came very late in his career and was probably of little interest to him).

«There's very little correlation to the equity markets, which makes it an interesting area for portfolio diversification,» says Abyd Karmali, managing director and global head of carbon emissions at Merrill Lynch.

What has happened in central Greenland over the past 10,000 years is very interesting, but it has very little to do with global temperatures.

The effective goal is to coerce «confessions» in energy - related interests» public filings that catastrophic man - made global warming is a real problem of which they constitute a significant part, that their reserves are in fact worth little to nothing and their previous filings and other statements constitute actionable misdeeds, possibly fraud.

Business interests (or BINGOs as they're called in U.N. speak) «can have very little effect at these meetings,» according to Nick Campbell, a European industry lobbyist who has represented the International Chamber of Commerce at U.N. climate talks since the early 1990s when the global effort to fight climate change began with the Rio Earth Summit.

Finally, it is always interesting to me how the many children of the 1960's, who used to argue for personal liberties and who now make up so much of the global warming movement, put so little value on the loss of freedoms.

The accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid by the fossil fuel industry to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» has two parts: the 1991 - ’95 span when it got little public interest, and late 1995 to the present, when it became far more widespread.

If only one person burned a little coal, no one would really care about global or regional effects — maybe some local neighbors and some downstream interests would have a problem, or not, depending on how the ash is handled, how the coal was obtained, etc, but in so far as the CO2 emissions are concerned, no big deal.

The COP alone, being often captured by the «big players» and their interests, does little to address the climate and social crimes on the global South, shutting down the voices of the communities.

All in all, interviewees went on to tell us that «this is a great city for doing interesting work with a little of the pressure taken off you — there's less of a national or global spotlight than in some of the headquarter offices of larger firms in New York.»

But I did want to leave a little memorial stone for the newspaper, and I wanted to do it here at Slaw — which is, in many respects, the true inheritor of The Lawyers Weekly's mantle: national (if not global) in scope, general - interest in mandate, and as up - to - the - minute as the current technology allows.

Ripple has the potential to be used as a tool of global banks — even if banks seem to have little interest in using XRP — but it is not a decentralized cryptocurrency.

Technically, GNL has no employees, so I have little confidence that an investor's interest are aligned (remember that GNL's CEO is also the CEO of American Realty Capital Global II).